UniFirst Corporation
68 Jonspin Road
Wilmington, Massachusetts 01887-1086
Telephone (978) 658-8888
Facsimile (978) 988-0659
March 10, 2009
VIA EDGAR AND OVERNIGHT COURIER
Mr. Larry Spirgel
Assistant Director
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F St. NE
Washington, DC 20549
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UniFirst Corporation |
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Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended August 30, 2008 |
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Filed November 13, 2008 |
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File No. 000-08504 |
Dear Mr. Spirgel:
We respectfully inform the Commission that we will be providing our responses to your letter dated March 5, 2009 on or before April 3, 2009. This is consistent with the discussion on March 9, 2009 between our outside counsel, Scott Chase of Goodwin Procter LLP and Staff Attorney John Harrington.
We appreciate Mr. Harrington’s agreement to the extension, and we are working on preparing responses to the comments in your letter. Please let us know if you have any questions.
Thank you for your assistance.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Steven S. Sintros
Steven S. Sintros
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
cc: John J. Harrington, Staff Attorney